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Page 12
... ment . I never strain after allusion , or labo- riously beat the thicket for game : it springs around me in abundance ; and I am com- pelled to refuse more than I take . If I could show my readers what I reject before it drops upon the ...
... ment . I never strain after allusion , or labo- riously beat the thicket for game : it springs around me in abundance ; and I am com- pelled to refuse more than I take . If I could show my readers what I reject before it drops upon the ...
Page 19
... ment of my readers : but I translated also , as I will ingenuously confess , or I would not have translated at all , without a conscious- ness of inferiority to the writer who had pre- ceded me on the ground . Having published , however ...
... ment of my readers : but I translated also , as I will ingenuously confess , or I would not have translated at all , without a conscious- ness of inferiority to the writer who had pre- ceded me on the ground . Having published , however ...
Page 23
... ment , has been so considerable as to give him a just claim to the thanks of my readers and myself . In a correspondence , which has passed between us , his deep and accurate erudition has supplied me with so many cu- rious observations ...
... ment , has been so considerable as to give him a just claim to the thanks of my readers and myself . In a correspondence , which has passed between us , his deep and accurate erudition has supplied me with so many cu- rious observations ...
Page 42
... ment of fortune , left his station at Christ Church in Oxford , where he was prosecuting his studies , and sought the means of subsist- ence in London , from the profession of a scrivener ; a profession which in those days united the ...
... ment of fortune , left his station at Christ Church in Oxford , where he was prosecuting his studies , and sought the means of subsist- ence in London , from the profession of a scrivener ; a profession which in those days united the ...
Page 56
... therefore , on the occasion of Milton's supposed punish- ment , might on every account very properly have been spared . study and contempt of pleasure , by obe- dience to 56 LIFE OF MILTON . hitherto been exempted from censure. Dis- ...
... therefore , on the occasion of Milton's supposed punish- ment , might on every account very properly have been spared . study and contempt of pleasure , by obe- dience to 56 LIFE OF MILTON . hitherto been exempted from censure. Dis- ...
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